Situational Identities Along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico

Jun U. Sunseri is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Standing Fast in the Middle GroundCommunity Research Mandates as a Privilege to Earn for Historical ArchaeologyA Spanish Colonial Project in a Native American Landscape(Un)documented New MexicoPrevious Archaeological ResearchChapter 2. Digging Out Community Picturing the Cast(a) of the Drama in Northern New MexicoFrontline Families and OpportunitiesA Turning Point on a Critical FrontierViewing Research on the Borderlands from a DistanceBorderlands Identities as StrategyA Historical Archaeology of Identity as a Complex of PossibilitiesConcepts of Homescape and HearthscapeChapter 3. HomescapeLandscape and IdentityMaps and MappingsThe Tactical HomescapeThe Engineered HomescapeEvaluating Topographic Space for Potential as Agricultural PlaceModeling Hydrodynamics of Acequia IrrigationPalimpsests of Place Along the Rito ColoradoLandscape Dimensions in DialogueChapter 4. Hearthscape ToolsPottery as Foodway ToolkitsWho made these pots?Typologies and Historic New Mexican PotteryChoosing Clay for Making PotsTransformations of Clay into ToolsThe Thermodynamic Art of FiringPots in PerformanceA Process of IdentityChapter 5. Hearthscape IngredientsGrazing to GravyWhat Animals Were Part of Life at Casitas?Creation of the Faunal Archaeological RecordAnimal Bodies Becoming PortionsTransformations into FoodTool Marks and BurningHow was Meat Portioned and Consumed?Hearthscape Evidence in DialogChapter 6. Historical Archaeology of a Place beyond LabelsFoodways Stages of Production and ConsumptionProduction Practices Related to ConsumptionUse and DisposalHearthscape Trends Across the PlazuelaTactical and Engineering Perspectives on Homescape PracticesComplicating Identity on the Frontier By Putting Scales in DialogueEPILOGUE: Protecting a Guardian of the FrontierNew Directions for Future ResearchArchaeology and Preservation as Memory, Performance, and Political ActionREFERENCES CITED

“This case makes a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the Spanish borderlands, especially in New Mexico, and will set the bar for archaeological and anthropological research into genÍzaro communities like Casitas.”-Bonnie J. Clark, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Denver and author of On the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado“This book is a culmination of several years of innovative research at Casitas that is important because it involves local descendent communities for whom this site has great personal and historic meaning. The research is comprehensive and integrates multiple lines of evidence in an unusual way, including documentary, landscape/viewshed, architectural, zooarchaeological, and ceramic analyses.”-Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland and coauthor of Mission and Pueblo of Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis